DREDGING THE ESTUARY
Sir—Mr Hiram Hunter’s letter on "flj!;. and health, your long article levels Of Christchurch, and the °hntosraph vou printed of the new imerican train one-quarter the Npieht with a speed of 102.8 miles hour—have been most valuable. I comoletely new system of railway ♦ransport is now' possible, with new Svridpments in France, Spain and the States. £20.000.000 per annum be saved in New Zealand by C nlanned dovetailing of ' railway and ! ’ and motor truck transport. Take *5? item near Christchurch. The Westminster dredge could build updated rail waggon yards and goods areas at points around Christ!bmch—Woolston. Heathcote. Bexley, Siirwood—thus leaving a great part of ♦he present railway land in Christehur<± for more valuable commercial „,e“ Railways can play a dramatic „lrt Buses and motor trucks, £73000000 (Government figures) per too costly.-Yours, July 7. 1954 -
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 7
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